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Born in Europe, Reva\\u2019s childhood was an unhappy one.\\xa0 Depression set in so badly she tried taking her own life at age thirteen by swallowing a hundred aspirins.\\xa0 She survived her suicide attempt, but upon waking from a deep sleep she learned nobody in Reva\\u2019s family noticed she had tried to kill herself.\\xa0 Reva didn\\u2019t start drinking until she was 21, while away at college in New York City.\\xa0 Instead of class, she was at any open bar she could find.\\xa0 Booze helped quell Reva\\u2019s anxiety.\\xa0 When Reva would later achieve her sobriety, her newfound clarity would allow to her realize her mother, too, was an alcoholic.